回 (huí) translates as “circle,” “time,” “to go back,” “to turn around,” and/or “to respond,” and 家 (jiā) as “home” and/or “family.” Together, they mean homecoming, and this return represents an autobiographical journey through my identity-search processes. This is an ongoing project (2018-) that depicts my gender transition while delving into the concept of intimacy, connecting the private and the home and understanding the body as a place to inhabit. It takes place between the different households where I have lived. Thus, each chapter opens a new door to delve into a new aspect of my identity. 回家 (huí jiā) captures the aesthetic exploration and physical changes my body goes through time. I explore the different possibilities of my image in it, by multiplying it, breaking it, shaping it… This way, the project challenges the limits of gender through the creation and development of someone who inhabits femininity through a transmasculine body, that is unmade to be made again, that goes toward its place of origin. By portraying people that surround me, I show the other side that accompany me and through which I also build my own sense of kinship. These photographs, which play with the codes of family portraiture, serve to question consanguinity by emphasizing the idea of adoption as a choice. The camera accompanies me by creating affective relationships and documenting vital changes. This concept addresses transitioning as a return to a place which is familiar to the body, circular and constructed as a home. The project functions as a visual diary of everyday experiences entangled in multiple identity transitions, where gender, racialization, and adoption intertwine, where both author and work mutually shape each other. Showing all the effects of treatments, my entire aesthetic change, and the evolution of someone who, at this moment, is also advancing in their own youth, 回家 (huí jiā) is an expansion through space and time.
Yunping Li (Hubei, China, 1998) is a visual artist based in Madrid. His work investigates the intersection between photography and performance, as well as exploring the concept of belonging in relation to the human body, physical spaces, and family ties. He is author of 回家 (huí jiā). The project has been winner of 13th Galicia Contemporary Photography Award, Fotonoviembre photography biennial and FOTODOKS open call 2025. He has presented it at Paris Internationale and the annual “Plat(t)form” portfolio review event at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland). In 2023, he showcased his solo exhibition 回家 (huí jiā) at El Local (Madrid) and at Candy Darling (Barcelona). Among his group exhibitions are: “Gen Z Shaping a New Gaze” (2025) at Photo Elysée (Switzerland), “Solo si huele a tierra” (2024-2025) at La Panera (Lleida), “ZHŌNGGUÓ. El País del Centro” (2024) at the National Museum of Anthropology (Madrid) , “Un cambio de paradigma” (2024) at Sala Arte Joven (Madrid) and “Segunda versión” (2024) at Cibrián gallery (San Sebastian). He has published his work in Sinetheta, Balam, Exit and Esto es un cuerpo magazines. His work is in the collection of Kutxa foundation.
Getxophoto is an image festival created and managed by Begihandi, that has been taking place in Getxo—Basque Country, Euskadi—since 2007. This festival is part of a cultural ecosystem with the aim of being more participatory, hybrid, committed and sustainable. This thematic Festival is conceived as a platform that addresses contemporary challenges through different proposals, from visual storytellers around the world, in an attempt to create spaces for reflection and establish a collective conversation. Getxophoto is characterized by the radical defense of public space (both physical and online). For this reason, most of its programme is composed of outdoor installations, highlighting, on the one hand, the link between the image and the environment and, on the other, generating a more horizontal and participatory relationship with the public.
This year, after PAUSE, PLAY and REC, the festival reaches a milestone: its 20th edition. The common thread for this anniversary edition could only be… RESET—a button that invites us to reboot the system. Anniversaries are moments to celebrate and rejoice, but also excellent opportunities to look back and take stock, to review our archives and get a glimpse of what we have changed; and equally a time to project forward with renewed energy, just as when soil is ploughed so that seeds can be sown again. The edition therefore welcomes proposals that address experiences of change, reworking, recycling and reinvention; of life cycles and celebrations; of individual or collective stories of resetting—a system reboot in any of its many forms.
María Ptqk is the curator of GETXOPHOTO 2026.